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Limited Time! Earn 5,000 Airline Miles per Car Rental

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Here’s an amazing opportunity for folks who don’t mind a little inconvenience!

We frequently see deals from the US to Copenhagen and Oslo. So these miles could be useful for taking your vacation beyond those locations, to other areas of Europe! Although you can also usually find pretty cheap airfare when hopping around Europe.

And kids under 12 years old only pay 50% of these prices! So this could be an amazing opportunity to earn enough points for a family vacation!

Note: The award chart prices are for round-trip tickets. But you can book a one-way ticket for 60% of the round-trip price.

2. Award Flights on SAS Partner Airlines

SAS is a member of Star Alliance. So you can use your SAS points on partner airlines, like Air Canada, Singapore Airlines, and United Airlines.

You’ll be charged a higher award rate, but it’s still very reasonable! For example, you can fly from the US to the Middle East in Business Class for just 120,000 SAS miles round-trip. That’s:

20,000 miles less than American Airlines charges (140,000 American Airlines miles)

Note: You’ll pay 60% of the round-trip price for a one-way ticket. But the child discount does NOT apply to partner award flight bookings.

Is This Promotion Worth It?

This could be an incredible promotion, depending on the price of Hertz rentals around you.

I found a local Hertz branch selling cars for ~$23 per day. If I made 20 reservations at this price, I’d have spent ~$460 and received 100,000SAS points (5,000 X 20). That’s enough for a round-trip Business Class flight on SAS from the US to Norway!

With Rentals This Price, You Can Fly to Europe in Business Class for Just $460!

The price of a round-trip Business Class ticket to Norway could be $3,000+, depending on where you’re flying from. So this promotion can save you BIG.

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I dug a little deeper and need to ask a second question. Any idea on how to book flights with their star alliance partners, and if that opens you up to more airports in the U.S.? I only see a few U.S. destinations (and limited reward flight availability with only a handful of dates each month) at the moment, but believe these are SAS flights rather than through the Star Alliance.

Are the point redemption numbers in point #2 of your post round trip or one way prices? This is an excellent find so kudos to you for doing so and sharing it. I'm doing the math with $18 rentals ($30 after all taxes) and so the way I see it, I'm essentially buying 5,000 miles for $30 at a time.

Does "at least one full day" mean 24+ hours? Or can I pick up at 9AM and return the next at 8AM. An extra hour with Hertz seems to be running around $10 so maybe figure in another $200 to your estimate.

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